On August 15th, the 17th year of Kangxi's reign, the autumn wind was blowing hard in Liaodong.

With a splashing sound, hundreds of horse hooves stepped across the river. The first horse had set foot on the south bank of Puhe River outside Shengjing City. Then hundreds of knights followed and rushed over. The man on the horse wore a melon ridge on his head.

He is wearing a hat and a yellow silk robe with Kui dragon and phoenix dark patterns. He has a pockmarked face and is not angry but proud of himself. He is none other than Kang Mazi, the emperor of the 95th year of the Qing Dynasty.

On both sides of the road on the south bank of the Pu River, there are endless golden wheat fields. It is already the spring wheat and autumn harvest season on the Northeast Plain, so the wheat fields are full of farmers bending over to harvest wheat. Seeing Emperor Kangxi passing by, these people who came from somewhere in the pass came to the Northeast

The Han tenants who came to seek a living in this nook and cranny were all so angry that they did not dare to say a word. Wherever Kangxi rode his horse, men, women, old and young, all lay down in the wheat fields.

When Kangxi saw this scene, he felt much relieved. He also reined in the reins of his horse, stopped on the official road, and said to the farmers who were kneeling before him: "Pingshen, Pingshen... harvest your wheat."

Go ahead and harvest more, it is better than anything else. If you wait for the autumn rains, the wheat will rot in the fields. Then you will go hungry this winter."

Kangxi was telling the truth...the black land south of the Pu River was his imperial estate, and 40% of the wheat harvested belonged to him, while the remaining 60% belonged to the tenants.

If the rent of 40% was placed in the Ming Dynasty or Wu Zhou Dynasty, which had already equalized the land, it would be a bit ridiculous. But for these Han people who fled from Shandong, Henan, Zhili, and Shanxi, it was really a great favor from the emperor.

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After all, the 40% rent is capped, with no apportionment, no miscellaneous items, no fire expenses, no small money, and of course no interest. The seeds, farm tools, and horses used for plowing are all paid by Kang Mazi's Ministry of Internal Affairs, and

You only need to borrow and repay, and there is no need to pay additional fees.

And in order to ensure that the servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs do not mess around, Kangxi has spent the winter in Shengjing for two consecutive years... In order to collect more rent and promote the development of Northeast China, Kang Mazi really worked hard.

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The land in the Northeast is really fertile, and it has been reclaimed, so it is easier to re-cultivate. Before these tenants in the pass took over, because there was not enough labor for farming, they all planted pasture - in the cold but not cold weather

Growing pasture in areas lacking water sources is a way to "raise the land". The land near Shengjing is originally black soil. It has been cultivated since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and it is almost producing "oil".

Therefore, the yield is extremely high. Although it can only be planted for one season, you can easily harvest five to six hundred kilograms of wheat!

Although 40% of the five to six hundred kilograms of wheat had to be given to Kang Mazi, a large landowner, the remaining three hundred kilograms still far exceeded the total output of two seasons of hard work on one acre of thin land on the loess soil in Guan Nei.

Therefore, the income of being a tenant to the emperor's family for a year in the black soil of Northeast China is much higher than their income from cultivating their own land in the pass.

Moreover, the emperor's family thought they wanted nothing more than rent, and those "village sages" in the pass were as fierce as tigers and as vicious as wolves, using all kinds of clever tricks to devour the peasants below alive... so these black men

The farmers in Kang Mazi's family who did the work were very grateful to Kang Mazi.

Seeing the tenants go away with tears of gratitude, Emperor Kangxi let out a long sigh.

His former father-in-law, Gabra, the father of the late Queen Xiaochengren, saw him sighing, and immediately rode forward and said: "Your Majesty, the rent of the Liaodong Imperial Mansion this year should exceed 700,000 shi of wheat...

...almost as much as the income from farming in Liaodong military towns during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, most of the Eight Banners' nobles in Zhuangzi in Liaodong also have a good income, and their total income should be more than one million shi.

If this trend continues, within ten years, the income of Liaodong Huangzhuang and Qizhuang will exceed 10 million dan! This Liaodong is really the treasure land of our Qing Dynasty!"

In fact, Liaodong was developing very well before the rise of Hou Jin Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty!

At that time, the Han population in Liaodong was several million. If you count carefully, it may be in the tens of millions. Later, there were more than two million people who followed Xiong Tingbi and fled into the pass.

Although it was still in the Little Ice Age, the spring wheat in the Northeast was still growing strong. The impact of the Little Ice Age on agriculture was mainly the drought in the northwest and central plains rather than the cold. For the Northeast, which had no shortage of water at all, it was nothing more than

Winter is cooler and winter wheat cannot be grown, but spring wheat is no problem.

Some people may not believe it. At the same time, Lao Maozi was even growing food on the frozen soil of Yakutsk. The person who did this was Khabarov, whose surname was used to name Khabarovsk.

——This guy asks people to dig up the permafrost in spring and grow food on the land under the permafrost! This will work, and growing wheat and soybeans in Liaodong, where the climate is much warmer, is not a problem.

"I used to know how good Liaodong is, but I never thought that the land in Liaodong is so fertile!" Kangxi looked at it and sighed, "But why is such a good place enclosed with a wicker wall? I, the Qing Dynasty, do it on the southeast coast.

By moving the border along the coast, the fertile land of twenty to fifty miles along the coast will be abandoned, and all the fish, salt, and benefits of maritime trade will be lost. It will also force the people along the coast to have no choice but to become rebels. The hometown in the Northeast is said to be the foundation of the country.

How come you are not allowed to farm in a circle? How can this be done..."

Gabra whispered: "This is not just to prevent the Han people..."

Kangxi sighed again: "It's a pity that we can guard against the obedient Han people, but not the real rebels...Gabula, have you heard that 'if you want to destroy the Qing Dynasty, you must first recover Liaodong; if you want to recover Liaodong

, is it true that North Korea must be recovered first? The rebels are already targeting Liaodong!"

The passage Kangxi said was obviously copied from the "Tianzhong Memorial", but he had not read the original version. He only learned about this passage from the Confucian Main Hall and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is said to be from Zhuge Sanhe

What kind of "Fa Qing Chu Shi Biao"!

This "Fighting the Qing Dynasty" talks about a route to unify China... According to Zhuge Sanhe, "If you want to unify the world, you must first devour the Qing demon; if you want to destroy the Qing demon, you must first regain Liaodong;

But if you want to recover Liaodong, you must first recover North Korea."

In other words, the route of the Ming Dynasty's Northern Expedition did not start with crossing the Huaihe River. Instead, it first crossed the sea to recover North Korea, then used North Korea as a base to cross the Yalu River to compete for Liaodong. After winning Liaodong, it then advanced to western Liaoning, and finally broke into Shanhaiguan and sealed the city of Beijing.

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As for the reason, Zhuge Sanhe also said it. Liaodong and Liaoxi are the foundation of Qingyao. Without Liaodong and Liaoxi, Qingyao will become a rootless tree and will surely die!

And Henan and Shandong are not the foundation of the Qing Dynasty. If we lose Henan, Shandong, the Qing Dynasty, Zhili, and Shanxi, we can even withdraw from the customs and hibernate in Liaodong for the future.

In addition, North Korea, Liaodong, and Western Liaoning are all along the sea. If the Ming Dynasty did not have maritime advantages, it would naturally be impossible to cross Henan, Shandong, and Zhili and directly attack North Korea, Liaodong, and Western Liaoning.

But now the Ming Dynasty has a powerful navy, and conquering the dynasty across the sea is not a problem.

The reason for starting the attack from North Korea, Zhuge Sanhe also said in "Fighting the Qing Dynasty", is because North Korea has always been close to the Ming Dynasty and considers itself part of the great world, and the Korean Kingdom has a large population, with a registered population of four

Five million, including hermits and slaves, there are at least eight or nine million.

Considering that the current population of the territory under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty is less than 30 million, the value of these eight to nine million Koreans is self-evident.

With these eight to nine million, Ming Dynasty could deploy at least one hundred thousand troops in North Korea!

The logistical transportation of these 100,000 troops and even a considerable part of the military supplies can be borne by North Korea.

The population of the Qing Dynasty in eastern Liaoning and western Liaoning is currently only more than one million... The population is too small, and naturally it is unable to support the logistics of the army.

Therefore, once Korea is captured by the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong and Liaoxi will be in danger!

It was precisely because he saw a copy of the "Execution of the Qing Dynasty" that Kangxi was extremely worried and gave orders to Deng Guangming and Yu Chenglong to be careful.
Chapter completed!